Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Northern Indiana

September 28, 1999White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1999, 6:18 PM EST for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Sep 28, 1999, 6:18 PM EST (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 1999, 7:00 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 28, 6:45 PM ESTHail 1Brookston, IN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1999-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1999-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 3:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass, Fulton47 min
Sep 28, 3:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMiami33 min
Sep 28, 4:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Whitley62 min
Sep 28, 5:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDeKalb48 min
Sep 28, 4:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBranch33 min
Sep 28, 5:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBranch33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.